The CIA's CouchPotato project

[infscrtyrisk]

Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the the User Guide for the CoachPotato project of the CIA. CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams. It provides the ability to collect either the stream as a video file (AVI) or capture still images (JPG) of frames from the stream that are of significant change from a previously captured frame. It utilizes ffmpeg for video and image encoding and decoding as well as RTSP connectivity. CouchPotato relies on being launched in an ICE v3 Fire and Collect compatible loader.

More at https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#CouchPotato

 

[sajunky]

Isn't encryption better for protecting these single-frame pictures? I think purpose of the project was for detecting spreading sublimal pictures by governments or business people (which could change people's behaviour), Coca Cola advertising scandal comes to my mind or SABC before whites-only referendum.

 

[Arthur]

Coca Cola advertising scandal comes to my mind

By the way, if you ever get an internet connection you might want to research the "Coca-Cola subliminal advert scandal" a little more. It's a hoax pushed by one James Vicary, and exhaustively debunked.

 

[sajunky]

By the way, if you ever get an internet connection you might want to research the "Coca-Cola subliminal advert scandal" a little more. It's a hoax pushed by one James Vicary, and exhaustively debunked.

Utter crap. Do you really believe that?